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March 18, 2011| by Richard D. Land and Talal Y. Eid
Lifting Heavy Hand of Religious Repression
Due to Eritrea"s systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), on... Read More

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The Washington Post: Christian-Muslim Tension in Egypt: Religious Freedom Must Prevail
By Leonard Leo and Elizabeth H. Prodromou
March 16, 2011
It is not enough to advocate that Egypt’s demonstrators be heard and heeded. That alone could usher in a new form of tyranny.... Read More

By Leonard Leo and Don Argue
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonard-leo/confronting-chinas-failur_b_811116.html
For decades, the United States has failed to address the abysmal human rights record of China, the world's most populous nation, with sufficient clarity or strength.
As... Read More

By Leonard Leo and Talal Eid
As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ, their brothers and sisters in Iraq face the unthinkable: the possible obliteration of their community, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
Victimized by violence,... Read More

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US to Bashir: Zero Tolerance for Gamesmanship
By Nina Shea and William Shaw
The story is all-too-familiar. A Sudanese town is burnt to the ground. Schools and hospitals are targeted and destroyed. Hundreds of civilians are murdered by tribal militia and... Read More

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09/22/2012| ByLeonard A. Leo and Don Argue
The following op-ed appeared in AOL News on September 22, 2010.
(Sept. 22) -- President Barack Obama will be delivering an address on Thursday to the U.N. General Assembly and, as in previous years, it is almost certain that he... Read More

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August 17, 2010
The following op-ed by Leonard Leo and Elizabeth Prodromouappreared in the The Huffington Post on August 16, 2010.
The global community may have a new advocate for international religious freedom-- Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel declared before a... Read More

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April 12, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nigeria's Acting President Johnathan Goodluck said today in World Magazine that the violence in Nigeria was “purely ethnic,” and that outsiders had misperceptions about the violence.
World Magazine also noted that the... Read More

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January 26, 2010
Washignton DC- The Huffington Post today published the following op-ed written by commissioners Imam Talal Eid and Nina Shea.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/imam-talal-eid/saudi-government-extremis_b_436786.html
Terrorists are not... Read More

For Your Information
The following Op-Ed appeared in the Washington Times on October 4, 2009
Overlooking Religious Minorities
By Elizabeth H. Prodromou and Leonard Leo
Anyone taking public transportation in Washington recently has seen the posters of a beautiful Turkish dancer beckoning... Read More